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Looks like an end of war surrender surrender scenario, and surprisingly the Germans were still finding gas for their vehicles.
I took a train trip thru the Brenner Pass from Munich to Florence last spring and got a good impression of the military significance of the Brenner Pass. There is still a large, intact fortification built by the Austrians in the Tirol not to far from Bolzano. It would have been nice to stop and have a look at it.
My uncle said they gave the krauts fuel in their softskins after the Germans parked their AFVs and surrender their heavy weapons. The idea was to get them out of Holland as quickly as possible. Interestingly, German MPs remained armed and worked under Provost Corps direction until all Germans were corralled. Then the German MPs were disarmed and Corraled. Maybe the same idea here, get them out of Italy.
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That guy got around and obviously earned his pay. Hope it ended well for him.
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http://veterantributes.org/TributeDetail.php?recordID=529^^^^ captain Edwin fisher
And more.......
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And more.......
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U.S.S. Little Rock Stuck in Montreal
The U.S.S. Little Rock has met with a series of delays since leaving Buffalo in mid-December and is currently moored in Montreal.
Author: WGRZ
Published: 8:31 PM EST January 4, 2018
Now they know what It's like on the Canadian Navy.
MONTREAL, QUEBEC-- It's been a bit of a tough go for the U.S.S. Little Rock as it continues to make its way from Buffalo and Lake Erie to its home port of Mayport, FL.
The newest member of the Navy fleet left Buffalo in mid-December following the ship's Commissioning ceremony at Canalside.
Since then, the crew has been met with several delays due to ice conditions and disabled vessels needed to help the ship navigate its way through the St. Lawrence and on to the Atlantic Ocean. It is currently moored in Montreal.
The U.S.S. Little Rock has met with a series of delays since leaving Buffalo in mid-December and is currently moored in Montreal.
Author: WGRZ
Published: 8:31 PM EST January 4, 2018
Now they know what It's like on the Canadian Navy.
MONTREAL, QUEBEC-- It's been a bit of a tough go for the U.S.S. Little Rock as it continues to make its way from Buffalo and Lake Erie to its home port of Mayport, FL.
The newest member of the Navy fleet left Buffalo in mid-December following the ship's Commissioning ceremony at Canalside.
Since then, the crew has been met with several delays due to ice conditions and disabled vessels needed to help the ship navigate its way through the St. Lawrence and on to the Atlantic Ocean. It is currently moored in Montreal.
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buzzmagoo
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Coffin tanks ! Can't even begin to imagine the experience ! Just thinking what it would be like comming too in one mid flight !!!!! The vibration, noise and no one around to explain what the f###going on !
Then what if you get some hot dog pilot that gets bored and forgets he has passengers !!!
Then what if you get some hot dog pilot that gets bored and forgets he has passengers !!!
B-29 Superfortress bomb bay
There's been some commentary that B-29 raids using incendiary bombs caused greater devastation to the Japanese than did HE bombs and even the 2 nuclear strikes.
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Read up on the “firestorms” they created. Very scary stuff. Never mind that your house is on fire, you’re about to be cooked by the air temperature alone, about to die from lack of oxygen, or get blown away by hurricane force winds that are going towards the center of the inferno.
Although, the aftermath of an A or H bomb would be similar, only with radiation ... if you survived the initial blast.
Incendiaries were quite devastating on Dresden and other German cities as well. The idea being to destroy civilian morale and support for the war. Didn't do much for the morale of the fighting troops either to know about it.
Hamburg was the first war-created firestorm.
Dresden, in some ways, was an experiment to see if it could be made to occur on demand. It was.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki both proved that it could be done with nukes, as primitive as they were, especially given that you had cities largely made out of rice-paper and bamboo.
BTW, there were Canadians at Nagasaki when it was hit. They were protected by the fact that their camp was on the reverse slope of the escarpment around the harbour. A few days later, they marched through the devastation to board their ships and, eventually, come HOME. They had been away since 1941..... and they were NOT in good condition: the results of 4 years of slave labour, torture, mistreatment, starvation and overwork.
I still have not heard the Japanese apologise for THAT.
Dresden, in some ways, was an experiment to see if it could be made to occur on demand. It was.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki both proved that it could be done with nukes, as primitive as they were, especially given that you had cities largely made out of rice-paper and bamboo.
BTW, there were Canadians at Nagasaki when it was hit. They were protected by the fact that their camp was on the reverse slope of the escarpment around the harbour. A few days later, they marched through the devastation to board their ships and, eventually, come HOME. They had been away since 1941..... and they were NOT in good condition: the results of 4 years of slave labour, torture, mistreatment, starvation and overwork.
I still have not heard the Japanese apologise for THAT.
That's because they aren't Canadian, the people who are everlastingly "Sorry" for everything. Eventually, we'll have apologized to so many for so much that all we'll have left to apologize to will be left handed, red haired people.
Hey, Justin, I'm left handed............When is my turn?????
B-29 Superfortress bomb bay
I think that silver tube above him is the tube connecting the front and rear section of the plane. The airplane was pressurised, and that tube was a way to navigate from one end to the other and stay under pressure.
Could be worse, you could get "Skyhooked" with the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system:
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Basically, harness up, attach a rope to a weather balloon, and you get whisked away by a passing airplane, and slowly winched into the cargo hold. Here's a video of the procedure being used to grab some cargo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system
Can't find info on how often it was used to extract personnel, but I remember seeing it used for personnel in some Vietnam newsreels.
In the early 1980s I remember the USAF personnel coming to the North Marg at Lahr and practicing with this system, calling in the recovery aircraft and winching a weighted dummy up, up and away. I recall they showed this system in the movie the Green Berets.
